What's quarter-sawn? "Figured" wood comes from the cut.

Comments disabled because of the know-it-alls. It gets really tedious to be continuously underestimated. The reason there's so much patronizing, two-dimensional content here is because most of you resist any interpretations or explanations that aren't reducible to a talking point. Of course 'flame' designs are in the shape of the wood grain: not all figure is quarter-sawn. The example of a burl was even used to reinforce that fact! My point was that flame types are not a unique species, and that they are best exploited by a skilled cut.
This video brought non-stop 'corrections' and unsolicited elaborations. Insistence on jargon. Stop regarding yourself as an authority; I sure don't consider myself as such. And before you give me your 'expertise,' remember these two things: 1) by the time you offer it, I've probably already heard what you are going to say, and 2) I didn't ask.
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Some people will just never 'figure' out that what we choose to call things is all just made up. That's what I'm talking about when I say that language is arbitrary; that is to say, words are picked out of the thin air for us to use as a designation to verbally describe an idea. All systems of expression are built on equally sandy bedrock. Let x= whateveryouwant. Or let's use n, instead. x, n, p, or q:
call something whatever you like, but stop trying to make me adopt your silly labels (standardization for scientific procedure notwithstanding). This is one of the surprising things about addressing a large audience: there are just so many advocacy groups for tiny ideas, and they all like to demand that you adopt their jargon. Call it what you want with wood, but fancy labels put aside at the end of the day, it's just an interesting optical quality.
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Music:
"Secret Of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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